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How costly is rent-seeking to diversification : an empirical approach
Waldemar, Felipe Starosta De - HAL - 2010
The empirical U-shaped pattern between product diversification and economic development has been widely examined, but here we analyze the determinants of diversification. We find that a high level of rent-seeking activities has a large impact on the diversification of nations : in countries...
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Export Behaviour and Propensity to Innovate in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia
Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat; Ayadi, Mohamed - HAL - 2011
The relation between export behaviour and the propensity to innovate is an important question for a developing economy. This article dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. We analyze the relationship between the export behaviour and the...
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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms
Poncet, Sandra; Héricourt, Jérôme - HAL - 2013
This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the 2000-2006 period....
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Export Activity and Productivity: New Evidence from the Egyptian Manufacturing Industry
KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf - HAL - 2014
This study explores the relationship between exports and productivity using a panel dataset of Egyptian manufacturing …
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Do Overseas investments create or replace trade? New insights from a macro-sectoral study on Japan
Chiappini, Raphaël - HAL - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and both exports and imports … between FDI and exports is overestimated when using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimator. The PPML method also allows … overseas investments substitute for exports in chemicals products and for both exports and imports in general machinery. …
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How Do Banking Crises Affect Bilateral Exports?
KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf - HAL - 2013
This paper investigates whether banking crises are associated with declines in bilateral exports. We first develop a … simple open economy model in which banking crises translate into negative liquidity shocks, leading to collapses in exports … countries over the period 1988-2010. The results suggest that crisis-hit countries experience lower levels of bilateral exports …
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Financial Factors and Manufacturing Exports:Theory and Firm-level Evidence From Egypt
KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf; Minea, Alexandru - HAL - 2013
This paper focuses on the effects of financial factors on manufacturing firms' export participation. Using a simple dynamic discrete choice model, we first present the intuition according to which financial constraints reduce the probability of exporting. Then, based on a panel of Egyptian...
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Export performance and product market regulation
Amable, Bruno; Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2013
This paper analyses the impact of product market regulation on the propensity to export at the industry level for 13 OECD countries and 13 industries over the 1977-2007 period. Recent economic policy and academic literature insists on the negative effects of product market regulation on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025820
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Destabilization Effect of International Trade in a Perfect Foresight Dynamic General Equilibrium Model
Nishimura, Kazuo; Venditti, Alain; Yano, Makoto - HAL - 2013
In the present paper, we consider a two-country, two-good, two-factor general equilibrium model with CIES non-linear preferences, asymmetric technologies across countries and decreasing returns to scale. It is shown that aggregate instability and endogenous fluctuations may occur due to...
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Terms-of-Trade Impacts of Trade Agreements and the Choice of Trade Policy
Jarreau, Joachim - HAL - 2014
This paper studies the impacts and determinants of trade policy. I use data on applied tariff protection of world countries over 2001-2007 to estimate sector-level trade elasticities. I then calibrate a structural gravity model of world trade. I compute the impacts of trade agreements which were...
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